Legacies of the Street Resources

Legacies of the Street: Seeking Mobility Justice in West Adams & Mid-City sought to demonstrate the deep relationships between place and people that persist even in the face of transportation injustice. Below is a collection of resources for community members to deepen their own understanding of transportation history of their neighborhood. Some readings address the broader relationship between transportation and systems of inequality, while others can give you hands-on tools to mapping your neighborhood's changes over time.

This book shows that, by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.

The book is a collection of the author's lectures, writings, and conversations that provide a reminder that calls us back to presentness in everyday life. Legacies of the Street presenter Yolanda Davis-Overstreet finds daily inspiration in this text.

This book reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns.

This book chronicles the journey of the author through the small towns, rural spaces, and urban neighborhoods of the US in search of solutions to climate change, social injustice, racist violence, and economic insecurity.

The Untokening contains resources to learn more about mobility justice.

Pueblo Planning is a participatory planning and design firm that works from the belief that the voices of residents should be respected as experts, and they should dictate the design of their community.

The Green Book Project was published from 1936 until 1967 by a black postal worker from Harlem, New York, named Victor Green. He created this book to protect African Americans from harm while traveling on America’s open roads and utilizing its public spaces.

West Adams & Mid-City Resources

LA Green Grounds is a grassroots organization of volunteers dedicated to working with residents of South Los Angeles, California to convert their front lawns and parkways into edible landscapes and urban farms.

The Ron Finley Project envisions a world where gardening is gangsta, where cool kids know their nutrition and where communities embrace the act of growing, knowing and sharing the best of the earth’s fresh-grown food.

Map Resources

Old Maps Online hosts a map-based repository of over 400,000 historical maps from around the world. It is a hub for many other archival and online map collections.